Manage the information used in automated design and data management systems

Manufacturers in a wide range of sectors face heightened global competition which they must address through operational excellence married to better supplier, partner and customer relations.  Constant technological advances enable continuous process improvements for efficiency and improved product quality, reduced waste and lower energy consumption, while creating challenges to control capital expenditures and protect or improve operating margins. Meanwhile, customers expect higher quality products at lower prices with improved services, while governments apply ever more stringent regulations. Manufacturing companies need visibility into every process and activity at each value chain step, together with better coordination and information exchange between business units, suppliers, partners and customers.

Our solutions for Manufacturing improve information flow and availability to staff while addressing regulatory demands for long-term retention. They provide full visibility of content and context via the user’s preferred interface, whether that is an enterprise application, email, browser or office productivity tool. Because the operational information is made available in context as required, but also captured, classified, archived and ultimately destroyed according to established records policies, each business unit (including research, development, legal, compliance, finance, sales and marketing) can access it as required to support their specific objectives.

Our solutions for Manufacturing apply enterprise content management (ECM) technologies to improve current and planned processes, integrating with and supporting other enterprise software ranging from resource planning (ERP), database, testing and maintenance, staff training (HR) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Our solutions for Manufacturing are based on a framework providing the right task and resource support for the processes in the industry's value chain.